I worked for the Canadian govt for a while and they use a product called secureID. It basically generates a new number every 40 seconds this number forms the last half of your password. If banks forced customers to use one of these then your passwords would be a lot more secure and almost all of these security problems would be a lot less of a problem.
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It is hard enough to get an interview with University Education listed on your resume. There may be other ways to demonstate skills but not having a University Education will likely get you cut from 90%+ resume piles and without an interview you can't demonstate skills.
When someone has to look through 1500+ resumes for 2 positions there are a couple givens.
With that many resumes there are surely going to be enough qualified candiates to fill the position.
Any easy filter you can apply to elminate people will be applied. I can tell you that education is a quick look filter. Gets rid of the people that are unlikely to meet your qualifications.
Sure if everyone had infinite time to select candiates they might take a closer look at each person but we are working in the real world where people get paid for their time. You might miss a few people that might be qualified for the job - perhaps you would have the skill set required but in the end it isn't a big deal because some of the other candiates are going to have similar skill sets.
I don't really see how this is a fundamentally flawed methodology. It just isn't practical to not apply some quick filters when you get stacks of resumes for positions.
Getting a pHD in cs is a good way to become over qualified and have a harder time getting a job than you did before you had the PHD, unless you were previously devoid of skill and unable to get a job in the non-academic world and are happy pigion holeing yourself into an academic niche.
Instead I would suggest doing a degree in a different field, hopefully a complementary field and moving yourself into a niche which few other people are qualified to compete within. For example, Bioinformatics. You combine a degree in say genetics and computer science and you've opened a lot more doors than if you had just completed a masters or phd in cs.
I am not arguing that all medical operations could occur in a different country obviously there are factors that prevent that like as you mentioned emergency situations.
But bypass surgury AFAIK is not usually done in emergency situation, it is a planned operation that is done usually as a result of the patient developing angina due to constriction of the blood vessels.
Also although I haven't taken a look at the cost of all operations but I would think it to be just the opposite that the most expensive procedures are planned. Think heart transplant, bypass, surgury in general.
Again it would depend whether there are restrictions on flying in each case but since it is a planned procedure you could fly to Indian have the operation and stay in a recovery room there for fractions of the cost.
Another good example is cancer and kemotheraphy. You could fly down have the kemo and treatement and stay in a vactation type recovery place there until the major portions of the treatement are over.
The thing that I found intertesting that I hadn't thought about is not the tech jobs going over seas but other jobs going over seas. If they can setup a computer software engineering center which can turn out code as good as the rest of the companies in the states what prevents them from creating a medical facility and training doctors who also work for cutthroat rates. If you can train people to be good at computer science in india I don't see why you can't train people to be good doctors, nurses, etc and cut medical costs down to the price of a plane ticket.
If all high paying jobs are shipped over then the cost of what the high paying jobs were providing software, medicare, etc falls to the point where you don't need a high paying job to cover it. Just think, the biggest expense is medicare, if that is cut by not paying doctors $300K year then why do you need a high paying job.
There are of course times when patients can't be flown to have an operation but in generally the most expensive procedure could be taken care of in an Indian medical facility with doctors trained at a North American level but costing a fraction.
If you don't like the new books don't read them. It is clearly marked that they are by the son and not the original author. If there is a market for them they should be written. Simple as that. Just because they seem like they are part of the series doesn't mean that you have to read them.
If you base what you read purely on the title then you deserve to get disappointed.
The silmarillion was not a very good book. Very hard to read and quite boring. If i were in the mood for a fictional history lesson and I felt like studying it - not reading it - then I could see it being interesting.
I am much more interested in picking up the prequels to the dune series then trying to read silmarillion again.
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Odd the press release isn't on sigma's website.
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I called up the other day and you just speak your card number and or say "customer support" and you are dispatched. Quite refreshing from hitting the sometimes non-responsive buttons on my phone.
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I worked for the Canadian govt for a while and they use a product called secureID. It basically generates a new number every 40 seconds this number forms the last half of your password. If banks forced customers to use one of these then your passwords would be a lot more secure and almost all of these security problems would be a lot less of a problem.
It is hard enough to get an interview with University Education listed on your resume. There may be other ways to demonstate skills but not having a University Education will likely get you cut from 90%+ resume piles and without an interview you can't demonstate skills.
When someone has to look through 1500+ resumes for 2 positions there are a couple givens.
With that many resumes there are surely going to be enough qualified candiates to fill the position.
Any easy filter you can apply to elminate people will be applied. I can tell you that education is a quick look filter. Gets rid of the people that are unlikely to meet your qualifications.
Sure if everyone had infinite time to select candiates they might take a closer look at each person but we are working in the real world where people get paid for their time. You might miss a few people that might be qualified for the job - perhaps you would have the skill set required but in the end it isn't a big deal because some of the other candiates are going to have similar skill sets.
I don't really see how this is a fundamentally flawed methodology. It just isn't practical to not apply some quick filters when you get stacks of resumes for positions.
Getting a pHD in cs is a good way to become over qualified and have a harder time getting a job than you did before you had the PHD, unless you were previously devoid of skill and unable to get a job in the non-academic world and are happy pigion holeing yourself into an academic niche.
Instead I would suggest doing a degree in a different field, hopefully a complementary field and moving yourself into a niche which few other people are qualified to compete within. For example, Bioinformatics. You combine a degree in say genetics and computer science and you've opened a lot more doors than if you had just completed a masters or phd in cs.
I am not arguing that all medical operations could occur in a different country obviously there are factors that prevent that like as you mentioned emergency situations.
But bypass surgury AFAIK is not usually done in emergency situation, it is a planned operation that is done usually as a result of the patient developing angina due to constriction of the blood vessels.
Also although I haven't taken a look at the cost of all operations but I would think it to be just the opposite that the most expensive procedures are planned. Think heart transplant, bypass, surgury in general.
Again it would depend whether there are restrictions on flying in each case but since it is a planned procedure you could fly to Indian have the operation and stay in a recovery room there for fractions of the cost.
Another good example is cancer and kemotheraphy. You could fly down have the kemo and treatement and stay in a vactation type recovery place there until the major portions of the treatement are over.
The thing that I found intertesting that I hadn't thought about is not the tech jobs going over seas but other jobs going over seas. If they can setup a computer software engineering center which can turn out code as good as the rest of the companies in the states what prevents them from creating a medical facility and training doctors who also work for cutthroat rates. If you can train people to be good at computer science in india I don't see why you can't train people to be good doctors, nurses, etc and cut medical costs down to the price of a plane ticket.
If all high paying jobs are shipped over then the cost of what the high paying jobs were providing software, medicare, etc falls to the point where you don't need a high paying job to cover it. Just think, the biggest expense is medicare, if that is cut by not paying doctors $300K year then why do you need a high paying job.
There are of course times when patients can't be flown to have an operation but in generally the most expensive procedure could be taken care of in an Indian medical facility with doctors trained at a North American level but costing a fraction.
If you don't like the new books don't read them. It is clearly marked that they are by the son and not the original author. If there is a market for them they should be written. Simple as that. Just because they seem like they are part of the series doesn't mean that you have to read them.
If you base what you read purely on the title then you deserve to get disappointed.
The silmarillion was not a very good book. Very hard to read and quite boring. If i were in the mood for a fictional history lesson and I felt like studying it - not reading it - then I could see it being interesting.
I am much more interested in picking up the prequels to the dune series then trying to read silmarillion again.
09:33 PM | Sigma Makes Source Code Available for Its MPEG-4 Video CODEC
c gi ?day0/222340286&ticker=sigm
http://www.businesswire.com/headlines.shtml
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.
Odd the press release isn't on sigma's website.
I called up the other day and you just speak your card number and or say "customer support" and you are dispatched. Quite refreshing from hitting the sometimes non-responsive buttons on my phone.